A.Word.A.Day--gibraltar

[After Gibraltar, a British colony on the southern coast of Spain; home of
the Rock of Gibraltar.]

"And it could, at long last, rattle Gibraltar. After all, it's only made
of clay."
John Carman, Rivals Chip Away At NBC's Gibraltar / Thursday Night Lineup
Isn't What it Used to Be, The San Francisco Chronicle, Oct 12, 2000.

"In this Gibraltar of propriety mediocrity gets intrenched, and
consolidated, and founded in adamant. An Englishman of fashion is like
one of those souvenirs, bound in gold vellum, enriched with delicate
engravings, on thick hot-pressed paper, fit for the hands of ladies and
princes, but with nothing in it worth reading or remembering."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits, 1856.

This week's theme: toponyms or words derived from place names.

X-Bonus

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-Christopher Morley, writer (1890-1957)

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